February 12, 2018

She-People Of Pallor, Repent Ye!

Attention, all white women. You and your “whiteness” are “causing real harm and violence.” You are, to put it bluntly, “a perpetrator of harm.”

And so, obviously, what you need is a workshop, where you can “confront your participation in the oppression of others,” which is to say, “confront white womanhood,” and thereby be in “true solidarity” with beings of colour, who are flawless, downtrodden and inherently more noble. Given your own vile and corrupting nature, interaction with beings of colour must only be attempted after following the guidance of suitably enlightened instructors. Instructors who will bestow intersectional epiphanies by steering you to the works of these lofty, selfless warriors, and also to articles published in that high-minded journal for troubled women, Everyday Feminism.

For a mere $20, you could be stewing in the wisdom of, among others, “artist and activist” Heather Marie Scholl, who was famously interviewed by Gavin McInnes, and whose creative efforts “examine white women’s roles in the establishment and maintenance of white supremacy through… embroidery techniques.” When not toppling the patriarchy with unattractive needlework, or “approaching social justice issues with a productive emotionality,” Ms Scholl boasts of her “BA from The Evergreen State College in Race, Gender and Sexuality.”

Well, quite. Because that degree in Race, Gender and Sexuality was such a sound investment.

And I think we can dare to assume that the intended demographic – the dupes of this hustle – will, like the hustlers, be ladies who have little first-hand knowledge of white working-class life and who can therefore indulge in fits of pretentious agonising, in a room full of bedlamites and morons, before paying for absolution.

Thanks for the public service, David. My wife of thirty years just resumed knitting after a 35 year hiatus. (We're somewhere on the spectrum which runs from "doily" through "potholder" to "loincloth" . . . I think.) Evidently, she's been a feminist sleeper agent all this time.

I was commenting on this to my wife and she mentioned that she felt that my ownership of her as a "pure" white woman was an entirely appropriate tradeoff for her family not having a sufficient dowry and that it was worth being owned to avoid the dowry burning festival.

We might mock, but it seems several hundred women were sufficiently gripped by self-hatred to attend such seminars last year. I would have thought the $20 solution to such hatred involved cheap vodka and a handful of pills...

I note that Everyday Mentalism has raised more than 2/3 of its $30k funding target. Own up; who here has been encouraging them!

Apparently, all white women should pay to submit to an experience that their own judgement will tell them is unwarranted and painful, because they should feel pain, because, being white, they deserve it.

We’re so lost. We are co-dependant, entitled, childish, narcissistic… we hate ourselves so much… and many of us haven’t even figured out how to tie our shoes yet.

By offering the above as a key “resource,” a declaration of how “we” feel, the organisers are at least leaving little doubt that both they and their audience are wretched, dysfunctional people and not to be trusted with car keys. So yes, mentalists. But more than that, they’re predatory mentalists. They wish to inflict their psychodrama on other people. One might call it abuse.

I am reasonably sure that, "Gallia est omnis divisa in partes tres...", was not ever said by a queen of the Bantus. It is only a small step from the absurd totemizing of "women/poc" before idiots like this and Miss Scholl actually start building temples to them.

Don't be so sure. I'm confident there are "histories" out there which demonstrate the Caesar was a person of darker hue, said histories being written by the same people who assure us that there were 100 million witches burned in Medieval Europe. The TRUTH has been successfully suppressed by the White Patriarchy in order hide its evil past and appropriate the accomplishments of everyone else.

We love it, that breath of fresh air. Until they’re a little too honest. Until they touch on something that ripples. Unraveling one lie isn’t enough, touching on one sends shivers through dozens more. It’s a sick, painful web we weave for ourselves, white folks.

Why, put like that, it sounds almost like what they're selling is a spiritual experience; an open communication with ethereal spirits from another plane of existence.

And it just so happens that The Spiritualist Association of Great Britain does in fact also offer workshops, such as this one, which do not sound all that different to those Everyday Feminism and others are flogging (well, apart from the clear absence of animus and invective against the reader that is):

The power of unconditional love is a most powerful energy, and this enables those in the Spirit world to link with us on earth. This workshop will specifically explore the love energy within you through, firstly some guided meditations, and then by the students connecting with spirit and practising their own spiritual gifts in a strong and loving environment.

A snip at £40. And also this one:

This is a day for those who wish to strengthen their link with the Spirit World, in order to become a purer channel for their work on earth. Our loved ones who have passed to the Spirit World are still individuals who have their own style of communicating, and their own stories to tell. Spirit guides have wisdom, inspiration and philosophy that they wish to pass on to us.

The focus of this workshop will be to provide the conditions so that they may do this.

I think that last one has to be my favourite, but mainly because the convener of the workshop, Minister Suzanne Gibson-Foy, boasts an MA in Psychotherapy among her achievements and qualifications.

You know, for a theoretical approach that is almost obsessive about the Other and the great evil that is 'Otherising' an individual on the basis of their belonging to group X or group Y, it seems powerful strange that the workshops of Scholl and her compatriots sound awfully like they are painting people of colour as if they were elves, sprites or faeries out from the depths of some mist-shrouded forest ready to impart magical secrets for the (white) child-heroine of the hour, the latter being the real protagonist of all the psychodrama.

You know, for a theoretical approach that is almost obsessive about the Other and the great evil that is ‘Otherising’ an individual on the basis of their belonging to group X or group Y, it seems powerful strange that the workshops of Scholl and her compatriots sound awfully like they are painting people of colour as if they were elves, sprites or faeries out from the depths of some mist-shrouded forest ready to impart magical secrets for the (white) child-heroine of the hour, the latter being the real protagonist of all the psychodrama.

Thanks for helping me bring my thoughts into focus. You're absolutely correct and it seems that not only are they the protagonist, but their entire schtick is predicated upon their own sense of superiority to the benighted wretches of color whom they must rescue, because these damn wogs are incapable of doing it themselves. Mr Howes noted above just oozes that soi-dissant, let-me-pat-you-on-the-head, "white man's burden" superiority in every sentence.

The TRUTH has been successfully suppressed by the White Patriarchy in order hide its evil past and appropriate the accomplishments of everyone else.

Except, aren't these the same people who insist that there is no TRVTH, only the subjective observations and experiences we agree upon? So if there's only a couple of hundred loonies who believe this nonsense, out of a planet of 7,400 million, can they really claim it's the TRVTH?

Meh, I am sure, I am not too prone to believing revisionist history because it is palpably insane that...

The TRUTH has been successfully suppressed by the White Patriarchy in order hide its evil past and appropriate the accomplishments of everyone else.

Right, all these "advanced civilizations of color" were wiped out, enslaved, and otherwise appropriated by knuckle dragging white cave men from Europe. Same thing happened to Rome, and we all know what a marvel the Vandal Civilization was after.

It's hard to say what's more viscerally repellent in "White People Lie:" the baseless racial generalizations or the submissive, self-loathing projection of the author herself.

Of course, liberal fetishization of black women goes back decades. I recall in the 80s, single black mothers were invariably portrayed as wise, heroic figures courageously fighting to raise their children against all odds. Liberals were in thrall to them, especially unwed teen black mothers.

It’s hard to say what’s more viscerally repellent… the baseless racial generalizations or the submissive, self-loathing projection of the author herself.

Ah, but while dumb racial assumptions about minorities are anathema, dumb racial assumptions about white people are imperative and signal woke status. So the dumber and more obnoxious they are, the better. And the non-reciprocal, wildly incoherent patchwork of dogma, held together with tape, is a clue to the actual nature of the phenomenon. Which, so far as I can tell, only seems explicable in terms of some grotesque psychology.

It would appear that Emily Lakdawit has preemptively blocked half of Twitter. One notices that she didn't ask whether this was desired; rather, she simply assumed that none of us wanted our joy sucked out by her. The Woke AF Black Community, however, are going to find themselves afflicted by her just as soon as she whinges enough that they give in and grant her permission to show up.

This leaves one to observe that she's going out of her way to be kind to her white critics, while promising to torment her black "friends" at the earliest opportunity. In what world is this kind of racist behavior acceptable?

Apparently, all white women should pay to submit to an experience that their own judgement will tell them is unwarranted and painful, because they should feel pain, because, being white, they deserve it.

Putting the on-the-face-of-it stupidity of the actual protest and the school administration’s caving in aside, did these administrators not understand that this move would attract far more attention, much of it highly negative, than 16 & 17 year old children should be subjected to? Young/teenage high profile athletes are generally protected and/or heavily advised on dealing with even very friendly oriented fame. To subject young people to what is certain to be significant national and possibly international outrage borders on child abuse. They must know what they’re putting these kids into. The kids have no idea, they’re just naively fame seeking.

Ah, but while dumb racial assumptions about minorities are anathema, dumb racial assumptions about white people are imperative and signal woke status. So the dumber and more obnoxious they are, the better.

Normal American: Hey Adam, congrats on the Olympic medal.
Adam Rippon: DID YOU KNOW THAT I WAS GAY?
NA: Yeah, I guess, but I don't really care. Kudos on the medal.
AR: BUT I SAID I WAS GAY AND I WON'T TALK TO THE VP.
NA: No one cares who you sleep with.
AR: PENCE WANTS TO ELECTROCUTE ME
NA: Uh, I think you'd better take your meds and lie down for a while.